Hybrid inorganic/organic microstructured light-emitting diodes produced using photocurable polymer blends

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in the form of a one-dimensional array of microstripes emitting at 370nm were fabricated from AlInGaN inorganic semiconductor. These microlight sources were then used to “directly write” microstructures in photocurable blends of organic light-emitting polymers (LEPs) spin coated onto the LED surface. In this way, thin microstripes of LEP as narrow as 50μm have been fabricated and integrated with the micro-LEDs. These “self-aligned” polymer microstripes serve as wavelength downconverters under further excitation by the UV micro-LEDs, producing hybrid inorganic/organic microstructured LEDs.

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